Bill Schmarzo

Digital capabilities leverage customer, product and operational insights to digitally transform business models.  And nowhere is this more evident than the rush by industrial companies… Read More »Xaas Business Model: Economics Meets Analytics

Moo… There is this very intriguing Enterprise Car Rental commercial on TV (I’m old school and still watch my commercials on a television) that shows… Read More »Importance of Thinking Differently…Hint: Don’t Pave the Cow Path

The business, economic and social good that can be delivered courtesy of data science is almost unbounded; it has the potential to improve healthcare, public… Read More »Value Engineering: The Secret Sauce for Data Science Success

I love watching the NBA’s Golden State Warriors play basketball. Their offensive “improvisation” is a thing of beauty in their constant ball movement in order… Read More »Scaling Innovation:  Whiteboards versus Maps

What does it mean, as a vendor, to say that you support the Internet of Things (IOT) from an analytics perspective? I think the heart… Read More »Difference Between Big Data and Internet of Things

Did you ever have a concept that you knew was right, but just couldn’t find the right words to articulate that concept?  Okay, well welcome… Read More »Interweaving Design Thinking and Data Science to Unleash Economic Value of Data

The Big Data craze caught fire with a provocative declaration that “Data is the New Oil”; that data will fuel the economic growth in the… Read More »Data Curation: Weaving Raw Data into Business Gold

Describing the Data Science analytics development process has always been a struggle for me.  The corporate world is full of linear processes.  Major monolithic enterprise… Read More »Why Data Science Development Process is like Playing Game Boy® Final Fantasy

I continue to be infatuated with the potential of autonomous entities that self-monitor, self-diagnose, self-fix and self-learn without human intervention.  The vision of leveraging new… Read More »Creating Autonomous Entities: Optimizing Systems of Subsystems